SCARNA15

Summary

SCARNA15 (small Cajal body-specific RNA 15, HGNC:32572) is a small Cajal body RNA gene on chromosome 15q25.2.

Predicted to be involved in RNA processing. Predicted to be located in Cajal body and nucleolus. Predicted to be part of RISC complex.

Source: NCBI Gene 677778 — RefSeq curated summary.

At a glance

• Gene type: non-coding (scaRNA) — no protein product; not a drug target. Variant/disease associations are omitted (they would be positional, from an overlapping protein-coding gene).

Identifiers

Gene identifiers

Field	Value
HGNC ID	HGNC:32572
Approved symbol	SCARNA15
Name	small Cajal body-specific RNA 15
Location	15q25.2
Locus type	RNA, small nucleolar
Status	Approved
Aliases	ACA45
Ensembl gene	ENSG00000277864
Ensembl biotype	scaRNA
OMIM	612675
Entrez	677778
RNAcentral	URS00005172B7 — ncRNA, 127 nt, 10 organism(s)

Gene structure

Transcript identifiers

Ensembl transcripts: 1 — 1 scaRNA

ENST00000516881

RefSeq mRNA: 0 — MANE Select: None

Canonical transcript exons

ENST00000516881 — 1 exons

Exon	Start	End
ENSE00002089158	82755945	82756071

Expression profiles

Bgee: expression breadth broad, 71 present calls, max score 99.07.

Top tissues by expression

71 total, by Bgee expression score (0-100, higher = more expressed):

Tissue	Anatomy ID	Expression score	Quality
sural nerve	UBERON:0015488	99.07	gold quality
liver	UBERON:0002107	76.05	gold quality
monocyte	CL:0000576	73.94	gold quality
islet of Langerhans	UBERON:0000006	71.37	gold quality
bone marrow	UBERON:0002371	69.78	gold quality
blood	UBERON:0000178	69.17	gold quality
gastrocnemius	UBERON:0001388	68.53	gold quality
nucleus accumbens	UBERON:0001882	67.39	gold quality
tibial artery	UBERON:0007610	67.04	gold quality
left adrenal gland cortex	UBERON:0035825	66.00	gold quality
body of pancreas	UBERON:0001150	65.84	gold quality
placenta	UBERON:0001987	64.76	gold quality
substantia nigra	UBERON:0002038	64.40	gold quality
stomach	UBERON:0000945	63.68	gold quality
vermiform appendix	UBERON:0001154	63.62	gold quality
myometrium	UBERON:0001296	63.36	gold quality
kidney	UBERON:0002113	62.28	gold quality
vagina	UBERON:0000996	62.14	gold quality
descending thoracic aorta	UBERON:0002345	61.84	gold quality
body of stomach	UBERON:0001161	61.71	gold quality
ascending aorta	UBERON:0001496	61.20	gold quality
lung	UBERON:0002048	61.12	gold quality
left coronary artery	UBERON:0001626	61.07	gold quality
Ammon’s horn	UBERON:0001954	60.70	gold quality
right ovary	UBERON:0002118	60.68	gold quality
C1 segment of cervical spinal cord	UBERON:0006469	59.62	gold quality
right adrenal gland	UBERON:0001233	59.53	gold quality
esophagus mucosa	UBERON:0002469	59.39	gold quality
anterior cingulate cortex	UBERON:0009835	59.20	gold quality
right lobe of thyroid gland	UBERON:0001119	58.94	gold quality

Single-cell (SCXA)

Detected in 1 experiment(s), a significant marker in 0.

Experiment	Marker?	Max mean expression
E-ANND-3	no	0.00

Regulation

Is transcription factor: no

Literature-anchored findings (GeneRIF, showing 1)

• ACA45 is a snoRNA with microRNA-like functions. (PMID:19026782)

Cross-species orthologs

1 orthologs

Organism	Symbol	Gene ID
mus_musculus	Gm54927	ENSMUSG00002076102

Paralogs (1): (ENSG00000281159)

Protein

Non-coding RNA — no protein product; not a drug target.

Function

No curated pathway, Gene-Ontology, or interaction data.

Disease & clinical

No curated disease, variant, or cancer-driver associations.

Drugs & pharmacology

No drug or pharmacology data — not an established drug target.